Sam Yovan
@SamYovan
Proud disabled family man with children | NHS staff on long-term sick leave | Passionate about disability & Human rights | Views my own
URGENT: Stand with disabled communities—GOV’s #DisabilityBenefits cuts are deadly. #SignAndShare every petition. Here’s mine: #UC #ESA #WCA #LCWRA #PIP #UniversalCredit #MentalHealth #LongCovid #MECFS #MultipleSclerosis #UK #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7255…
Nothing annoys trolls more than sniping back at their abusive comments and blocking them immediately. They call it cowardice. I call it getting the last word. It’s also satisfying knowing they’ll be raging and unable to do anything. Really need to stop responding to them at all,…
"Don't vote for Corbyn/Sultana party, you'll let the political right win"- says the party who tried to do a deal with the Conservatives so they could force through the biggest ever cut in disability benefits before bothering to talk to their own backbenchers.
Sounds exciting! So when will you be starting?
Reversing cuts to benefits for the unemployed, sick and disabled is the place to start. Addressing poverty pay and exploitation is the place to start. Getting homeless people off the streets is the place to start. Building council homes is the place to start. Clueless:
There's a type of autism that doesn't get talked about much because it's really hard to explain. It's the kind that doesn't look like anything. Not "weird" or "different" or "quirky" or "odd"... it's not seen at all. But the internal distress and anxiety is unrelenting.
Just 17 peers were willing to support disabled people this week, following disablist comments by both Tories and a Labour member as the Lords rubber-stamped a bill to remove billions of pounds a year from disabled people seeking out-of-work benefits. disabilitynewsservice.com/only-17-peers-…
Questions to anyone who uses this website- Why do you NEED to know whether a vehicle is leased via Motability? What do you intend to do once you have this information? What possible purpose could it serve? #DisabilityHateCrime 1/
🚨 NEW: The boss of Motability has hit back at “misrepresented” and “hostile” commentary after a website was created to identify Motability vehicles [@johnpringdns]
Good luck So glad you are finally ready to replace Blue Labour with a real Left Wing Party My vote for a name? The “Many” Party VOTE FOR THE MANY! Not the few If not Simply “Left Wing” VOTE LEFT 🪽!
Choose 3 priorities? Mine: *Rejoin EU asap *Nationalise Utilities *Fix Health & Social Care Last inc: • #CleanIndoorAir std of HOC/MoEd in all schools/workplaces • #LongCovid cure task force • bring Care back into NHS • Disability/sickness benefits up to rest of EU levels
Ministers have published research they have been sitting on for more than a year showing how the proportion of disabled people in financial difficulty doubled in 2 years, days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to out-of-work disability benefits. disabilitynewsservice.com/number-of-disa…
Andrew Lewin - Labour MP for Welwyn Hatfield (Hertfordshire). Andrew was a member of the Lib Dems from 2003-2010. He was behind the formation of the pro-European group Remain. He defected to Labour in 2010 and said that it was ‘the responsibility of the Labour Party to stand…
On tonight’s Hall of Fame (political edition), we have MP for Liverpool West Derby lan Bryne. He has been a steadfast ally of disabled people (and still is, of course!) from the start and voted against the cruel UC bill. Thank you! #DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP…
On today’s Hall of Shame (politician edition), Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, Tulip Siddiq, who voted for the cruel UC cuts. She pretended to care about the concerns of her disabled constituents, but still supported the cuts and the government. Shame!…
The Department for Work and Pensions has finally released excerpts of secret reports that show its errors contributed to deaths of universal credit claimants, days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year-cuts to the UC health element. #DWP #UniversalCredit disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-publishes-…
Battling the ignorance and bullying online of disabled people. Today, blue badges. Blue Badges are massively underclaimed according to government statistics. In 2023/24 only 38% of people who were automatically entitled to a Blue Badge held one.
This is a genuine question to those who claim that the notability licence plate checker site isn’t incitement - what is the purpose of it? Furthermore why do you need to know this information? What is the intended consequence of this site?
DWP publishes parts of secret reports that show fatal errors on universal credit, days after MPs vote for cuts disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-publishes-… via @johnpringdns #TomorrowsPapersToday #FrontPages #Scandal
Kim Leadbeater - Labour MP for Batley and Spen (West Yorkshire) since 2021. Kim has been very much in the news after introducing her Terminally ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in October 2024. The Bill was passed on 20th June 2025. Kim was a sports lecturer and trainer before…
Dear @UKLabour, You are not "committed to protecting the most vulnerable". Yours, Dr Watts
What I’m seeing more starkly than ever before is the psychological damage caused by the relentless assault on disabled people by the government and media. It is psychological warfare. People are in severe stress and every day the government and media kick us around like…
MP's need to be held criminally accountable for every death which can be traced back to the vote.
Thanks, Jay. And yes, these are just the IPR findings from 2022-23. I'm still waiting for 2020-21, 2021-22, and part of 2023-24. If these are the first ones they agreed to release, I dread to think what's in the others.